Dr. Jeremy Cottrell

Jeremy is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Sciences at the University of Melbourne. He lectures on topics such as animal physiology and nutrition, and maintains a research programme concentrating on the aetiology of heat stress and amelioration strategies on livestock, particularly pigs and chickens. Jeremy has a background in human physiology but transitioned to animal science when completing his PhD under the guidance of Robyn Warner, Frank Dunshea and Matthew McDonagh. During his PhD, Jeremy investigated the role of nitric oxide in meat quality, particularly how it is unregulated by stress and interaction with determinants of meat quality. Jeremy then completed a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Children's Nutrition Research Centre (CNRC) at the Baylor College of Medicine under the guidance of Douglas Burrin, investigating intestinal metabolism and the role of GLP-2 in augmenting the digestive and absorptive function of the small intestine. Upon returning to Australia, Jeremy worked within the Biotech sector investigating transdermal drug delivery and at the Victorian Department of Environment and Primary Industries (DEPI) investigating novel dairy bioactive proteins and their benefits to skeletal muscle growth. Collectively, this background gives Jeremy a broad background in the conduct of research in primary production, and animal and clinical models under university, government and private research environments.